"Thomas Swan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To convert low bits ot high bits you pad 0 bits on the left. To convert > from high to low you strip bits off the left hand side. This allows > reasonable behavior.
Unfortunately, the SQL spec is perfectly clear that you pad or strip zero bits on the *right* of the bit string. We cannot change that. It might have been better if we had defined int<->bit casts to treat the first bit of the bit string as the LSB of the integer. But we didn't, and it's probably too big a change to consider. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster